10 new books we can't wait to read in March

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Reading ListIf you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.Forget the old adage about March coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb — at least when it comes to new book releases.This month’s titles start out strong and wind up even stronger.

In fiction that means a darkly comic novel about a gay married couple on the vacation from hell on to a debut portrait of first-gen Asian American angst.In nonfiction, a soulful look at how we interact with the natural world leads to an equally soulful look at why the American West’s human diversity enriches us all.

Happy reading!FICTION:The Disappointment: A Novel By Scott BrokerCatapult: 320 pp., $28(March 3)Renowned photographer Randy and his playwright husband Jack are vacationing on the Oregon coast, but their trip sours.Between Randy’s baggy of his late mother’s ashes and swinger neighbors into tantric massage, the weirdness sends Jack to a sexting app instead of his beloved’s embrace.

Yet, as a new play begins to brew in his mind, Jack resolves to mend their relationship.Trouble follows, but ultimately, hope remains for the couple.Repetition: A Novel By Vigdis HjorthVerso Books: 144 pp., $20(March 3)This slim, powerful novel could be spoiled by too much information, but lingering too long on the 60-something narrator’s encounter with a teenager that makes her remember her own teenaged self — seems too simple.

The title matters both as style and theme, as the unnamed woman recalls the past with uncanny accuracy.As she says, ”I repeat and recall and relive and retell and redress because.

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[the] future is an ongoing process.”Whidbey: A Novel By T.Kira MaddenMariner Books: 384 pp., $30(March 10)Madden (“Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls”) makes her fiction debut with a propulsive and twisty story of how a ghostw...